Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Little House memoirs, Laura Ingalls Wilder so vividly limned the homesteads and Midwestern landscapes of her 19th century pioneering girlhood that millions of Americans know them as well as they do their own home and backyard. So engaging is Wilder's prose that after finishing all nine volumes, many can't bear to stop. Instead, they retrace Wilder's frontier by reading the series again and again, first to themselves and later to their children...
Across the country, ski areas are getting wilder. New York's Whiteface Mountain recently opened the Slides, hundreds of feet of treeless, sheer rock face atop the East Coast's highest vertical drop. The Mount Hood Meadows resort in Oregon runs a Sno-Cat tractor so that skiers and boarders can move 1,000 ft. higher to reach an in-bounds canyon that offers 55[degree]-angle chutes (90[degrees] is vertical...
...Fosse had a pop-culture counterpart, it was Billy Wilder, Hollywood's cynic in chief. Indeed, his Double Indemnity would have made a perfect Fosse show, for both men were drawn to seamy stories like a fly to manure: Sweet Charity is about a prostitute manque, Chicago two murderesses, and the film version of Cabaret, Fosse's greatest achievement, is a veritable saturnalia of sexual variation. And while the fatalistic Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries is Fosse's unlikely theme song, some of the cherries in this particular bowl are unnervingly sour. Robbins and Fred Astaire may have...
...craze is only going to get wilder: last week Diamond Multimedia of San Jose, Calif., announced it will ship hardware next month that plays MP3 recordings. The $199 device, called Rio, is as small as a deck of cards and plugs into your PC, where you can fill it up with an hour's worth of tunes that you've downloaded. Then you can detach it and take it anywhere...
...average monthly movement of a stock--up or down--doubles, steady investors enjoy a 7% greater return over just two months. "What really makes it work is that the stock market goes up over time," he says. But even in a market whose average is flat for a time, wilder price gyrations lead to better overall returns. For that reason, dollar-cost averagers are better off in volatile investments, such as index funds and technology stocks...